Bulgarian agricultural producers’ protest ends with signing of memo with government
A protest by various agricultural producers against imports of foodstuffs from Ukraine and other grievances ended on September 20 with
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Imports from Ukraine: Bulgarian PM speaks after talks with protesters
Ukrainian sunflower seeds will not be allowed into Bulgaria until the grain producers and the government have set a quota,
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Agriculture Minister: We are asking Ukraine to withhold exports to Bulgaria pending clarity
Bulgaria’s government is insisting that Ukraine withholds exports to Bulgaria until the goods, quantities and mechanisms for licensing regimes are
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Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron strain found in all 36 samples – NCIPD
Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said on September 18 that it has completed the sequencing of
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Bulgarian Navy destroys drone with mortar attached found near coastal village
A Bulgarian Navy specialist team destroyed a drone that had an 82mm high-explosive mortar attached to it, found near the
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Bulgarian military convoy to return from multinational exercise in Germany
Personnel and military equipment from Bulgaria’s 61st Stryam Mechanised Brigade Karlovo are to return from participation in the multinational joint
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Bulgaria’s PM on farmers’ protest: Main problems already solved
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, speaking at a special news conference on September 17 on the eve of a nationwide
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Bulgaria’s PM: Grain producers ‘started behaving like terrorists’
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov says that Bulgarian grain producers have “in the past two days started behaving like terrorists”.
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EU ends restrictions on imports from Ukraine of four agricultural products to five EU countries, including Bulgaria
The European Commission (EC) announced on September 15 that it was ending the temporary restrictions on imports from Ukraine of
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